According to industry analysts, over 80% of enterprises will deploy VoIP over the next five years.  Has your organization determined strategies and tactics for effective implementation of IP convergence?

The opportunity for productivity gains, cost efficiencies and more exist when you move to IP-based communications in your enterprise. The convergence of voice, video, messaging and collaboration has combined, providing a totally new level of enterprise communication. Open systems and new industry standards have opened the door for more choices that fit your business needs.  How will you navigate the choices and ensure your enterprise achieves new efficiencies from IP-based communications solutions?

In this one day conference, attendees will learn the following:

• How to design an IP converged network that will maximize your organization’s productivity
• How to identify critical IT requirements for reliability, security, interoperability and manageability
• New services that will make your organization more efficient when you migrate to IP telephony
• How to leverage your IP network to offer enhanced services to your enterprise
• How to troubleshoot your IP network to maintain optimal performance
• How other IT departments have worked through the challenged of IP migration
• How to align resources across IT & Telecom organizations to determine requirements, assess your network, deploy solutions and educate users
• How to integrate VoIP into wired and wireless networks
   

8:00am - 9:00am - Continental Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am
Developing & Deploying an Effective IP Migration Strategy
DeAndre Hodo, Global Director, I.T. Infrastructure & Operations, Littelfuse, Inc.

To effectively deploy IP Telephony, IT and Telecom managers need knowledge and facts.  Attend this session and learn how to develop an IP Migration strategy and what actions to take for effective deployment.  In this session you will gain the following:

• Gain industry insight on developing a sound IP telephony strategy to help companies’ bridge the divide between IT and Telecom requirements for a successful IP migration
• Determine the right application capabilities that meet your business needs
• Identify critical IT requirements for reliability, security, interoperability and manageability.
• Understand your scalability needs in the short term and long term
• Assess your network bandwidth capabilities to deploy IP Telephony
• Determine IT and Telecom resource need for deployment and operations
• Identify hidden costs associated with IP deployment

This session will deliver information on important considerations to make when deploying this critical technology, and how to get started.

10:00am - 10:30am - Refreshment Break

10:30am - 11:30am
How to Integrate VoIP into Your Wired and Wireless Networks
Mark Schroedle, Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

Major changes have been happening in the area of voice communications due to IT convergence. Communication networks — public, private, wired, and wireless — are being configured in such a way that the voice calls can be routed using the Internet based protocols.  Legacy protocols such as H.323, MGCP, and IPv4 do have some limitations, but the emerging protocols (SIP, H.248, and IPv6) have Interoperability related issues and concerns.

This session will provide a tutorial on the existing and emerging voice signal coding techniques (G.711, G.719, G.723, etc.) and the standards (SIP, H.323, MGCP and Megaco) for signaling and transmission of Voice over IP (VoIP). The speaker will provide guidance on how to engineer any Internet protocol based network for (a) efficient VoIP transmission and (b) service quality management and enforcement.

In this session you will learn:

• How to get your network ready for convergence

• Possible and feasible solution options to achieve true convergence over multiple access method

• How to overcome implementation and interoperability challenges and pitfalls

11:30am - 12:30pm
How to Implement and Support Next Generation IP Telephony Voice Applications
Andy Feit, Senior Vice President, Adomo

Today’s communications paradigm is characterized by service silos. IP telephony makes a new business communications paradigm possible, one where distributed applications provide users with new levels of intelligence and functionality by sharing communications resources and aggregating communications services. The first step towards this new paradigm is a converged network, with voice traffic traveling across traditional data networks. But deploying IP-PBXs alone is not enough to achieve the vision and unlock new business value. To change the communication paradigm enterprises must create an open IP telephony architecture within their enterprise. The components of an open IP telephony architecture are:

• Distributed voice applications
• Shared communications resources
• Common interfaces that aggregate services

In this session you will learn the strategies and tactics for creating an open IP telephony architecture in your organization that will allow your organization to take advantage of next generation voice applications.

12:30pm - 1:30pm - Luncheon

1:30pm - 2:30pm
How to Secure Your IP Telephony Environment
Christopher Dantos, MIPS Security Architecture Team, Motorola

Enterprise IT departments need to implement a well thought-out security plan to handle the risks presented by VoIP. 

In this session you will learn:

• How to develop the appropriate network architecture to support effective security measures
• How to ensure that the organization has examined and can acceptably manage and mitigate risks to information, operations and continuity of operations
• How to support E-911 service on your converged network
• Why certain security protocols should or should not be used in your VoIP network
• How to technically implement these security features and protocols to provide best possible security to your converged environment

2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Tools and Techniques to Troubleshoot Your IP Telephony Infrastructure
James Mancini, CTO, Netreo

IT departments are realizing that the performance of the underlying infrastructure is paramount to successful VOIP implementation.    How do you deal with the challenges of jitter, packet loss, echo and delay, and voice signal and noise?  How do you balance high-speed, bursty data requirements with requirements of high quality voice calls?  How do you create help desk guidelines to correctly direct problems to a voice or LAN/WAN subject matter expert?  This session will present you with tools and techniques to help manage the variety of challenges that exist. 

4:00pm - 5:00pm
A Real World Discussion on VoIP: Benefits Gained and Lessons Learned
Moderator: Susan M. Andersen, Director, Enterprise Systems Management Division, CA
Panelists: Gary A. Goerke, Information Technology Director, Ramco-Gershenson, Inc.
Dave Braner, CIO, CIMCO Communications
Joni Ferneau, Director, Voice Services, RR Donnelley
James E. Ihrke, Director of Information Technology, Arnold & O'Sheridan, Inc

Hear from panelists experienced in implementing VoIP technology sharing their different approaches, solutions and results.  They will discuss issues such as telecommunication analysis, cost justification, risk management and technical architecture. Attendees will learn how enterprise IT departments have designed their VoIP strategy, their architecture and what pitfalls they should avoid when implementing VoIP.

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education,
 in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs.
CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.



Conference price: $179 per person per conference.

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